Declan Murphy wrote:
> On Oct 23, 8:26 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> obakesan wrote:
>>> In article <cfaaa415-6ae8-4c42-a29f-82ac3371f...@p49g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> companies etc during that time. When a Japanese speaking foreign
>>>> businessman walks into a meeting, the last thing anyone is going to
>>>> think about is his beard.
>>> so many things come to mind here
> 
> Please specify :-)
> 
>>> its more frustrating at the onsen ;-)
>> I thought that was tattoos ... ?
> 
> Get real Charles. If a Japanese speaking foreign businessman was
> walking into a meeting specifically being held in an onsen, the last
> thing anyone is going to think about is his tattoos. It would probably
> be a pre-requisite of the meeting.

You must go to different onsen than I do.  Most of them have signs 
specifically forbidding people with tats from using the facilities. 
And, I wasn't on the same train of thought as you were ... thinking 
about the difficulties of even getting in rather than actually trying to 
meet.  Lessee ... business meeting at an onsen?  How could you get any 
work done with all of the babas crowding around you in the rotenburo 
trying to get a look at your manhood to see of Caucasian ones really are 
not the same?

-- 
CL